il s'en ramasse...des pédos à la Pell

Singer-songwriter Tim Minchin released a song earlier this week that has gone viral, calling out Australia’s leading Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, for running from charges of child sex abuse.

Pell is reportedly being investigated for “multiple offenses” while serving as a priest in Australia and as Archbishop of Melbourne, reports The Guardian

A dossier compiled by the detectives says Pell allegedly sexually abused minors “by both grooming and opportunity”.

“We can not comment on investigations into any individuals,” Victoria police told Guardian Australia on Friday night.

The allegations were “clearly designed to do maximum damage to the cardinal and the Catholic church and undermine the work of the [Australian] royal commission [into institutional responses to child sexual abuse],” a spokesman from the Vatican in Rome told the Guardian.

Pell is due to give evidence to the commission on 29 February via videolink from Rome. Pell was initially due to fly to Melbourne in December to give evidence in person, but he cancelled at the last minute, with his lawyers tendering medical documents to the commission which said Pell was too ill to fly.

Proceeds from the sale of the track go to a fund which will send the survivors of sexual abuse by clergy in Ballarat to Rome to witness Cardinal Pell give evidence in the public forum.